One of my favorite DS games is Lost Magic. Real time strategy, monster collection, and a rune drawing magic system. I've never found another game like it.

@grayrodent8232

Жыл бұрын

Lost Magic is a curse. You play it once and you'll never stop craving for more, but there's no more, it's entirely unique. Like Guilty Gear 2 Overture, a weird blend of genres that simply existed and then disappeared.

@SwedePotato314

Жыл бұрын

Oh jeez thanks for ny new addiction! I love it! Can’t believe I missed this one!

More hidden gems for DS: - Monster tale. - summon night twin edge - legend of kage 2 - windy x windam - zombie Daisuke - retro game challenge - GG series collection plus

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestions!

@Joeyintensifies

Жыл бұрын

MONSTER TALE MENTION OMG I LOVE THAT GAME!! I'm doing my yearly playthrough right now!

@akiradkcn

Жыл бұрын

Most of these gems but hidden? Not even close

@chaosknight1532

Жыл бұрын

Great list my guy But Fossil Fighter is so underated

@PinkLloyd88

Жыл бұрын

Why did you have to say retro game challenge 🫤 it’s expensive enough

Surprisingly a couple of games here I’d never heard of and I thought I knew everything about the DS at this point! Great video as always!

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jackal, glad you found some new games! 🙂

@broken1394

5 ай бұрын

I've been playing the DS on and off since the beginning and the joy is there's always seems to be another game that's new or those games your waiting to find, sometimes it's years before you get them.

For me, the hidden gem that never gets enough attention is Soul Bubbles. It's a spiritual follow-up to the old computer game Bubble Ghost. You have to blow a bubble through a level filled with hazards including spikes, flames and creatures. I completed it but it is great fun.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love that game, I covered it in the past and had a great time playing through it! 🙂

@PinkLloyd88

Жыл бұрын

Love soul bubbles. I bought it recently for £3 despite already owning it. It will be a gift for someone

Drone Tactics was also a blast on the DS thst no one mentions. There's so many things to customize from equipment to paint, a really good rock-paper-scissor system, and a relatively decent cast of characters, this was one of my favorite games I had on the DS.

I remember Nostalgia. And how the 1.0 version of the game was unwinnable because they forgot to include a boss that you needed to beat.

@BIGREDXXXL

6 ай бұрын

Same LOL

Wizard of Oz is one of those games I picked up on a whim, and it's pretty good. Nostalgia got a bad wrap as a JRPG but I liked it.

*FINALLY!!! AFTER YEARS OF COMMENTING ABOUT HOW NO ONE TALKS ABOUT ONTAMARAMA, SOMEONE HAS FINALLY MENTIONED IT IN A VIDEO!*

One DS game I like that I want to bring myself to playing is Super Princess Peach. Everything about it was refreshing. They switched up the story, Peach actually saves Mario. After Yoshi and Luigi, it's one of the first times Mario wasn't the protagonist but in fact they switched places. I loved the sprite art and color pallet on that game 🎨 it's one of the most beautiful 2D Nintendo DS games in my opinion and came fairly early in its life cycle. I don't hear anybody ever talking about it. I think people even forgot about it. I liked it's power ups too. Some were cute and funny.

@NYCJoeBlack

Жыл бұрын

Super Princess Peach, Mario 3 on 3, and Yoshi’s Island were release later in the life of the Nintendo DS as exclusives at Toy’s ‘R Us.

@Valordun

Жыл бұрын

It's because the level design was pretty mediocre in that game so people forgot about it

@PeruvianPotato

9 ай бұрын

I mean I knew quite a few people that had it growing up and my sister even had a copy when she was younger

@ninetozero920

8 ай бұрын

I see Super Princess Peach mentioned in nearly every "hidden gems DS games" list lol

I remember how Nintendo Gamer (I think that was the name, a UK magazine that died before the Switch) always kept Bongi-o Spirits at #100 of their top 100 DS games, choosing to cycle other games off the list instead despite them technically having a better review score. Since the DS era was the time I was most playing games, and looking into games where I end up playing only a small portion of them anyway, I'm surprised that I only knew half this list.

I feel the urgent need to thank you! My boyfriend had lost memory of the game "Chrono twins", my search lasted almost two hours, I was about to give up when I decided to search KZread for videos about forgotten video games, Including lostmedia, my native language is not English, but I entered your video with a minimum of hope of finding it, he and I are very grateful, I hope to see future videos with the same theme :>

Love all your content on hidden gems. Keep it up bud!

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

This is my go to channel when I'm looking for something new to play on my old gaming systems. Really appreciate you mate. 👌🏽

So glad touch the dead got a mention. It was like carrying around an oldschool railschooter arcade in your pocket and I spent hours playing it as a kid.

Never thought I'd see a Wizard of Oz RPG....maybe we'll finally get an It's A Wonderful Life racing game

@elmadesininternet4418

Жыл бұрын

Si, además es de Warner Games.

Oh man, glad to see Legendary Starfy on here. I just got that one recently and it looks really good! Touch the Dead always looked neat too, and may need to add that to my library. Thanks for highlight some DS recommendations! Awesome video as always man!

Nintendo needs to bring Starfy to Switch...a new entry would be amazing but I'd settle for a collection of all 5 current games ( the 1st 4 seriously deserve localizations....easily one of Nintendo's most underrated & underappreciated IPs ). Legendary Starfy has been one of my favorite DS games since it initially released, and I'm forever glad it got localized having played the 1st 3 games for GBA via an emulator.

Starfy should come to Switch in a collection already. I already had head about it, but when I got it as the single game the person had when I bought their DS a few years ago, I was so happy.

OMG, that Samurai Legend Musashi music that played during the Chronos Twins segment had me smiling so wide! The gameplay could have been better, but everything else about that game still holds up, imo. The art style, the soundtrack, the characters, the enemy design! It's all so amazing! In relation to the games on this list, though, I'm super happy to see Nostalgia on here! I'd forgotten about its existence, but I had SO much fun with it, so as soon as it popped up I rushed over to ebay! Can't wait to get my copy. ❤️

Happy to see Wizard of Oz on here. Game is just so wild and unique. Great video!

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! 🙂

I like the rare Japanese games like Kumatanchi and KimoKawae. Kumatanchi is a raising sim game where you, as the zookeeper, have to raise a literal half-bear girl named Kumatan, you can have Kumatan meet several half-animal friends in the zoo. Kimokawae is about a minigame game and dating sim game about Kaimu, the half-demon human protagonist meets hellspawn girls originated from hell (a cute ghoul, a Cerberus hellhound, a Poverty Goddess, a sentient marionette, a (fallen? Although she's not from hell) angel) besides a childhood friend girl. Both have interesting game mechanics and character designs and artstyles. Note: I hope you don’t mind the demon girls' back-spanking punishment minigame in Kimokawae (context: all demon girls (including the fallen(?) angel) have to be disciplined so they can fit on Earth (Human World).

At around 6:16 there's a song from Dragonseeds from the PS1 playing in the background, I heard the vocals and was immediately snapped back to the old days.

Awesome list! I've never heard of Chronos Twin, but those are unique ideas regarding the use of time in gameplay.

these games looks super cool. Thanks for your work! My games backlog grows with every video you make.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you find the videos useful! 🙂

I dig these videos. It's always nice to see a game two I've never heard of before.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

That cartoon squad game looks like a top down metal slug game 🙏🏽 impressive

I loved Starfy so I bought 2 Starfy games from Japan for the GBA. I had difficulty playing them though and I realized how much story matters to me. I can't read Japanese. I should try again now that there's good online translation. Thanks for the very entertaining video!

Great list! never heard of most of these, will definitely give them a try!

Thanks for covering these titles. Touch the dead was very addicting and I thought it was great. I think what made it so great that there were only 2 or 3 other light rail shooters on the DS. Actually that may have been the only one of its genre on a library of thousands of games. I'd have to say Resident Evil Deadly Silence and Dementium1&2 did have a bit of the light rail shooter elements in its gameplay but still all were addicting.

When talking about hidden gems of the DS era one game i always need to say is Infinite Space a game made by platinum games. Its a great space opera which intresting combat and many spaceships to customize and battle with. Its one of those games u look back on and wonder why it never got a remake.

@JTK_XXL

3 ай бұрын

An anime adaptation would've been nice as well.

@littelfoxypuppet8624

3 ай бұрын

@@JTK_XXL an anime adaptation would have been so peak.

@littelfoxypuppet8624

3 ай бұрын

@@JTK_XXL tho that also may be difficult due to the choices u have to make ingame. Youd habe to decide which choices u animate and why. Or merge them into one.

That one dude just sporting a regular tommy gun in Nostaliga, alongside regular RPG tropes like a witch, a healing priest, and a swordsman... man that just really cracks me up!

A DS game that NOBODY talks about? Legend of Kage 2, the sequel to the classic Taito arcade from the 80's (which most of the people played on the NES). They picked the original formula and turned into a really neat 2D action game. We still have the floaty jumps of the original, but there's real levels, a story and such. Great game, but forgotten.

The legendary starfy looks gorgeous, definitelly gona play it when my 3ds arrive

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

Great video! I just came from a bunch of ds game videos and yours definitely had games nobody talked about.

You think you've seen everything a console has to offer, and then a new video from this channel drops! Good stuff.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🙂

Ever tried the American Girl games for the DS? Practically no one talks about it here on KZread. Knock 'em Downs is also an interesting game to discuss as it ties in with the Didget glucose meter.

Nice, a good list. When I was a young person during the DS time, I had a flash cart and I played most of these games. The Wizard of oz game was a big surprise, looks awesome

@alakazamlover4908

Жыл бұрын

i have a flash card now and i watched this to give me some idea's of more stuff to put on it

YO, THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING WIZARD OF OZ! Love that game. I personally thought the trackball gimmick was really unique, which is actually what got me to play it. The battle system also reminds me of SMT 4's for some reason. Sadly never beat it though because the difficulty spikes in the last 2 or 3 chapters is actually ridiculous. B Team legitimately reminds me of Medal of Honor Infiltrator GBA for some reason. I wanna play Touch the Dead, never heard of it it before! Love my rail shooters, and it's pretty impressive the DS even has one tbh. P.S. Ever played Soul Bubbles? That's a chill game nobody ever talks about.

@R.Williams

Жыл бұрын

I have Soul Bubbles! Yeah it is a nice relaxing game. I enjoyed it!

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Love me some Soul Bubbles! Covered it before on the channel, such a charming and unique game!

I love Bangai O-Spirits. A really unique game that controls like a bullet hell shooter but feels like a puzzle game thanks to its inventive level design (and the game has a level creator/editor). My only gripe with it was always that it lags soooo much on the original DS. I wonder if playing on the 3DS fixes that a bit.

@endymallorn

Жыл бұрын

That was the first game I thought of when I saw the title! Yes, playing Bangai-O Spirits on 3DS picks up a lot of the lag - though it doesn’t make it any easier!!

Stafy came from Gameboy advance sadly never left Japan ... And is so cute and underrated series, no doubt DS version is good as well. Thanks for another great video, I didn't know about many games here. Surely I will buy it is I see it.

I was waiting for this one tnx mate 🔥

How did I never hear of B Team - Metal Cartoon Squad!!! Wow! Thank you for this find!!!

Nostalgia is great I played it in 2020. The game felt like a spiritual successor to The Skies of Arcadia. Blue Awaken shadow is also a shame these games have never been ported. they are really expensive.

I used to be such a Starfy fan what with all the time I spent playing the first 3 games. But when it finally got localized, I sadly got tired of it. But I was happy to see it exist outside of Japan for once

Man! for some reason I been wanting to collect for the Nintendo DS lately. for the Last few Months Ive been on a tare! picked up so many DS Games Plus a DSI XL. This machine has so many Platformers and JRPGS. just been Stacking on them. Managed to get my hands on all 3 Castlevania games which was my main reason for getting this handheld. Now im like $40+ games in lol. Every time I see you Post a DS video. its like a GODSEND! Gives me an Idea of what I should pick up next. Love your Videos.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Shuny! I’m glad the videos are helpful 🙂

@shuny11r23

Жыл бұрын

@nhatanhhoang3131 it's an RPG BEAST!! just picked up this week Children of Mana, Dragon Quest VI and Bleach The 3rd Phantom.

as always thank you, you all have a merry christmas and a happy new year

7:08. Just grabbed Touch the dead used. Good fun. Looking forward to getting deeper into the game

Whoa! I did not expect to find so many new DS games. When you think you know it all..

Super Dodgeball Brawlers was surprisingly fun for me. I never got that far in the game and I'm not that great at it either but it's a fun time.

I love these videos, I always find something.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris!

Thank you for mentioning chronos twins, i really like this game. Also, Zombie BBQ should be on this list.

Legend of Starfy is incredible! Did you talk about it on another video? I thought I first heard of it from this channel.

@adam145

Жыл бұрын

I had it on the DS and my idiot self sold it with the console when the 3DS came out ... I wish we got a remake of it, it's probably one of the best looking game on the DS. Those animations are breathtaking.

Chronos Twins looks really interesting! I'll definitely look for it!

YAAAASSSS, I have Nostalgia! It really deserves more love.

@worldsboss

Жыл бұрын

They barely released it, unfortunately 😢 Very few US copies, and PAL copies don’t exist at all as it never came out here

I loved playing Chronos Twin when I was little, I clicked on the thumbnail as soon as I saw an image of this obscure game, I'm glad to see it being appreciated

I'm an rpg guy, but i haven't heard nostalgia before. Thanks for making videos like this because people can be aware of such games and I have to admit, i want to check some of these games after watching the video.

@akiradkcn

Жыл бұрын

You will quickly see why no one talks about it lol

@jakkurinjactenderjakala4129

Жыл бұрын

@@akiradkcn I wonder why... is it a spoiler or not!?

@RwnEsper

Жыл бұрын

@@jakkurinjactenderjakala4129 I'm pretty sure they are just hinting at it being a 6/10 kind of game. I liked it, but a NG+ would have really helped it.

@akiradkcn

Жыл бұрын

@@RwnEsper pretty much, there isn't much to talk about in the first place, the vid talks about the battle mechanics aa if they were something inovative and amazing but really.... they are not, thousands rpgs did these things already and Nostalgia doesn't implement them into a particurlarly interessing way. Story is ok at best abd difficulty does need some balancing, and yeah the game really could have gotten some NG+ with more interessing extra content. Its just that, the game just doesn't gives you much room for long-lasting discussions

@orenjiTK

Жыл бұрын

@@akiradkcn thanks for the heads up. Does that mean this game is short? If it is, then thats a bummer. It looks good though, the look kinda reminds me of PS1 RPGs.

BANGAI O SPIRITS, so that’s what the title of the game I was desperately tryna look for. It was one of those games I played with the r4 on the ds, way back when I was kid and now I finally found it. Nice vid and thanks 🙏.

Another great video. Keep it up.

13:46 I finally found it! I remembered playing that game a lot when I was a kid, but I didn't know the name.

Great video as always 🔥

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Wesley!

Wizard of oz beyond the yellow brick road looks like an interesting game

Chronos Twins is straight to my purchase list!

bangai o and dodgeball brawlers are pretty good for what they are. bangai o had the cool level editor too. and it's mechanics were pretty cool to me.

man good video i actually didnt know about half of these

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Will have to keep my eye on these, cool choices. I just paid... a lot.. for Order of Ecclesia on the DS. Comes just in time for Christmas, will be one of my higher-end DS items in possession :) And, looking forward to just playing it. Thanks for the video!

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Great game their! Hope enjoy it 🙂

@worldsboss

Жыл бұрын

I did the same for the DS port of Chrono Trigger 😂 Was painful, but I’m glad to finally have that game so that I can play it one day.

@ernestjanzen6809

Жыл бұрын

@@worldsboss Oh goodness, I don't even want to know what that's going for now... though it might be wise to grab it before it skyrockets again in a year or two. Hope you enjoy it!

@PinkLloyd88

Жыл бұрын

Paying a lot for certain games is worth it. Especially games like castlevania. They rarely go down in value and you get to have fun with your assets.

These videos are great to eat cereal to, keep up the great work

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😋

Watched expecting to see games I have never heard of, was not disappointed.

Didnt know even one of these. AMAZING thank you!!

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found something new!

great video! great great content, super interesting.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I kept saying I was going to play Otomramama Srarfy games are good too. Nice to see stuff I never knew of

Wow that Wizard of oz game looks so fun!

Surprised you didn't mention Magical Starsign, it's insanely obscure!

B Team Metal Cartoon Squad reminds me of Tower 57, a sadly overlooked pixel art PC game. It's a bit glitchy but it's like The Chaos Engine with a dollop of Bioshock.

"Mazes of Fate is definitely one of the best Dungeon Crawlers I could play on a handheld, next to the complicated but not bad "Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain".

Mazes of Fate definitely reminds me of games like AD&D Eye of the Beholder or early Elder Scrolls games. I’m not sure if this is good or not. Games that I think deserve more discussion: Tom Clancy’s EndWar: Want more Advance Wars? This is a strategy wargame that takes a huge inspiration from that game, with a unique twist of a simultaneous phase interaction, and it’s really a fun experience. You might not think of a Tom Clancy game, but it’s honestly a fun one. Two DOS games got versions on DS which are great but not discussed enough, Populous and Jagged Alliance. If you never checked them out, you should. Populous especially has a great control scheme using the touchscreen. Jagged Alliance is a straighter port, but doesn’t exactly match any PC version’s mechanics. It’s great fun if you have any interest in that old series. I’m also a fan of Infinite Space, a Sci-Fi RPG released to little fanfare on the DS.

Legendary starfy on ds is actually the third game of the franchise, the other two are Japan exclusive and are gba games. And as you talked about Mazes of Fate, you shoukd talk about Orcs & Elves, Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Dungeon Explorer.

Wow a hefty amont of games I didn't knew, nice.

Good video man.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Nick!

there's one game on the DS I have heard nothing about, but, I also borrowed it and never actually owned it: Lost Magic. you draw runes on the touch screen as you move around a map...I don't recall the details. just being on a timer and getting stuck on a level. Then having to return it.

That neon DSI goes crazy.

I only knew about Ontamarama because Toshikazu Tanaka (composer for, among other things, Fatal Fury 1, the Power Instinct series, Metal Slug 4/5/7, and KOF Maximum Impact) did a lot of the music for it. However I feel like most of his tracks are a bit too heavy for the game, especially Club House Gig

damn chronos twin looks amazing. im surprised no ones ever talked about it before

7:05 Isn't that music from Cold Fear?

A game pretty much no one talks about is Zubo, which is a Pokemon clone published by EA with blocky type characters and a rhythm based battle system. It was a decent experience, though I did find it annoying how the characters would complain of hunger frequently, making me use up my food items to make them stop complaining.

I went absolutely ape shit this year on ds games. I picked up over 50! Now im just truckin away at these awesome titles. Toyko Beatdown has been my favorite

@worldsboss

Жыл бұрын

I did the same for 3DS! Bought up as many good 3DS games as I could afford, and committed to playing exclusively on that system for all of 2022! My 3DS backlog is still huge, but I’ve definitely made great progress on it this year 😁

Would add Soma Bringer. an incredible good ARPG

I dont think I have ever seen you talk about it, but a Rare DS Game I loved back in the day was Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Going to have to check this one out!

@nobalkain624

Жыл бұрын

@@thatvideogamesshow Sadly its stupidly expensive to pick up now. I should have bought it from Gamefly back in the day. Just checked on Amazon and its over 150. So hard to get old games now for decent prices.

Can you even download Nintendo DSi games anymore on your Nintendo 3DS? I forgot if it is still possible.

-b team metal cartoon squad ds -nostagia -ontamarama -bangai o spirits -the legendary starfy -super dodgball brawlers -chronos twins

What's the name of the music track from the beginning?

I think the two coolest games for DS are the Game and Watch gallery duology 😁

Incredible picks. Especially when I thought I learned about every ds game out there. I recommend you check out Theresia dear smile btw maybe for the next video

@thatvideogamesshow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation man, I’ll check it out!

Chronos Twin reminds me of Super Time Force Ultra a bit,

Some of these seem fun but one thats a hidden jem for me is drawn to life the second is my favorite Edit: the second one for the ds not the wii

Hey, Can you do 17+ PSP Games?

Is the game name “Chronos Twin” or “Chrono Twins”? And how can you be sure? You can’t really tell from the box and manual.

I found out that Touch the Dead was called Dead 'N Furious outside North America, lol.

these are great

Hello! Do you happen to find a game that's probably a Japanese DS game where you use the touch screen to draw so you can cast magic?

You guys always surprise me. If i ever think i covered all ground on a console, this channel tells me to sit down and open up my textbook at a page of their choice👀